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Re: the human voice
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Frank Burke <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:52:31 -0400
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Kristine Butler wrote:
 
>Can anyone help me in thinking of movies in which a conversation or a human
>voice is deliberately obstructed or drowned out by another sound, tus
>frustrating the spectator's access to the voice or voices in question?
>Godard does this in certain of his films, and I'm thinking that Hitchcock
>has too (in that this is a clever way to build suspense).  Thanks in
>advance!
 
Bunuel does this repeatedly in PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (or it might be THAT
OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE).
 
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Frank Burke <[log in to unmask]>
Film Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, ON, CAN K7L 3N6
 
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